Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:50:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Jocelyn G
Subject: BLAGUES-L: Double Positive
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.
"In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. In some
languages though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a
negative. However," he pointed out, "there is no language wherein a
double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, Right!"